Uredinopsis filicina

Uredinopsis filicina (Niessl) Magnus, 1893

on Abies

gall

spermogonia very small, numerous low bumps, mainly at the underside of current year needles. Aecia white, cylindrical, in two rows st the underside of the young needles, with a hyaline peridium. Aecia 0.2-0.5 mm in diameter (Klenke & Scholler)

spermogonia, aecia

on Phegopteris

Phegopteris connectilis, from González-Fragoso (1925a): teliosporea (at left) and the two types of urediniospores

gall

uredinia hypophyllous, mostly sub-epidermal. The urediniospores are extruded as a thread; they are short-stalked elliptic, distally tapering into a sharp beak. A second type of uredionospores is long-stalked and pyriform. The more or less globular, usually 2-celled teliospores are formed below the epidermis, scattered in the leaf mesophyll.